BIRTH'DAYS' OR BIRTH'DATES'? By S. K. Adams Just few hours to my birthday, I started receiving chunk of wishes from friends and family, most of whom I met recently during my youth service in ogbomoso southwest Nigeria. I must confess that birthdays are celebrated almost everyday especially by those who have colonies of friends and colleagues especially in a place like the youth service Corp. To my surprise, the first thing a friend you recently come into close acquaintance with wants to know about you after few days is 'what or when is your birthday? ' The first time I was asked this question by a friend of mine( a lady), I struggled to understand the rationale behind asking that question. I had to give her the wrong date for two reasons. Firstly, It would have suffice to give just the month and the day though, but I thought I have to include the year too, I wouldn't like to appear like a young chap that my friends back home have always accused me of ...
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OGBOMOSO
Ogbomoso Like first rain I came to you a stranger And in the warmth of your arms You absorbed me like soil And in the scorching heat of life You shade my soul to its toe And when hunger came like thunderstorm You quench it with thunderbolt And make success my home From the best of creatures You chose my friends In pictures and motion I saw angels and demons In the flesh of man My stay with you Was like honey and bread But like the movement of the sun It is destined to set I have to bid you flee Your presence in here Shall remain a scar Even In the stormy winds of life Do forgive my woes Till we meet again S.K. Adams 171015. 07.41am
7 THINGS YOU MUST NOT DO AS AN ENGLISH STUDENT
1. Don’t Be too Ashamed to Speak There is only one way to learn how to speak English, and that is to open your mouth and speak English! The only way you will ever get better at speaking is by speaking, and speaking a lot! Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. – Mark Twain You can make excuses for why you don’t want to speak, like saying that you’re too embarrassed to speak, but these won’t get you any closer to your goal of achieving English fluency. It doesn’t matter if you have no vocabulary, or if your pronunciation isn’t perfect, you need to open your mouth and speak if you want to improve. Whatever you do, don’t say that you can’t speak English because this will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. By believing that you can’t speak English you close your mind to trying, and never give yourself the opportunity to improve. The only way to improve your English is to practice it, no matter how bad you may or may not be at it. 2. Don’t Be Afraid of...
MY FIRST VISIT TO THE U.S My first visit to the U.S was a memorable one, I don't know why because I have visited other foreign countries like this before but this present one was special. May be it was because of the way a snicked into this highly secured country scaling through the burden of securing visa from the American embassy. Or may be because I was given a free pass by the immigration officers, the drug law enforcement agencies and other related border patrol agencies. The most surprising of it all was my been able to bypass the medical checks at a time when the presence of the deadly Ebola dieseas have been confirmed in Lagos and Rivers state, and Nigeria as one of the Ebola countries by the World Health Organization (WHO). This have gained dominance in the social network and other media outlet worldwide. For a while I thought and said to myself " that is Nigeria for you, the U.S is different" I boarded my flight and I arrived. I knew the journey fro...
TILL ETERNAL ETERNITY In a lonely paradise of a young lad Spoiled by melange of pain All hope of joy squandered and lost By the dawn of darkness and despair A new beginning was ushered by sunrise At last the smile long lost resurfaced A reign of joy marked its era Optimism grew for the future looks bright Infelicity became notorious as a stranger But, will this laugh last long? The sun head to the west And the young lad live in the north Their world is far from same Its now clear, the supposed smile Was in fact an injury born again I lost in this game again With fragility I handle my care My hands are tied by two mighty gods Ethnic distance And of course Pal loyalty Thank you for the brief toast If nothing, I sensed the past again Though I wished its not the end This scar you left shall live Till eternal eternity. S.K. Adams 080915 1:24pm
TheFall of The PDP andThe Cyclical Theory: A Historian's Revisitation
As I keep witnessing changes in the political lifespan of the Peoples Democraic Party (PDP) in Nigeria today I can't stop smiling inside me. I have heard of the statement 'history repeats itself' but I think I have never seen it practically as I do in Ibn Khaldun's "Cyclical Theory" its just like what one historian calls scissors and paste history. When I was an Undergraduate with my colleagues we sit dormant under the nose of our learned professor while he took us as usual back to the 15th century, he was engaging us in a book written during this period by a renowned historian, political scientist, and sociologist Ibn Khaldun titled In Arabic "The Muqaddimah" that is the Introduction. Prof explains to us the cyclical theory demonstrated by Ibn Khaldun and he said the theory was about the raise and fall of kingdoms in history. One thing was important in the rise and fall of kingdoms in history and that is the role played by corruption in bringing ...
FAREWELL TO DECEPTION I want to call a spade by its name It may hurt though But truth is nothing But Truth Allow me To marry the scorch And free myself From this ocean of lies Go! Deception Go! The door is there Calling out on you Be kind enough And give it that chance For which you denied me S.K. Adams 170715